Have you ever felt the first nip of air in a new country?? That feeling of exhilaration when your aircraft touches down on new territory??
The feel of a new breeze as you drive away from the airport, new sights and new architecture, the scents and flavours of new food??
Yes to experience this, all you need [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2009’
Why travel??
Cape Town
Located at the south-western tip of the African continent, Cape Town is one of the most industrially developed and modern cities of South Africa. Known mainly for its waterfronts and the breathtaking view of the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town attracts a lot of tourists all the year around. If you love water sports, [...]
Wine for the winter!
Its cold winter out here, and what better way to celebrate this chill than a glass of humble wine! Wine happens to be for most of us, a chance to live an upper lifestyle that we aspire to reach for. And, more so often wine is also that solace which we usually seek. If you [...]
Bangkok, Thailand
Just under 14 degrees north of the Equator, Bangkok is a tropical metropolis that is also one of the most traveller-friendly cities in Asia. It is a large city, modern and Westernised and humming with nightlife and fervour. But it is really very hot. visitors are confronted by the heat, the pollution and the irrepressible [...]
Male, Maldives
Known as the Sultan’s island in the past, Malé is the capital of Maldives. It occupies the entire islet of Malé. Spread over and area of 1.77 sq km with over 80,000 people crammed onto it, Male is one of the world’s densest cities.
There is so much to do here. And water is a [...]
Santiago
Santiago is the capital of Chile. Santiago de Chile was founded in 1541 and is the oldest city in the country. The location of the Chilean capital is quite spectacular: the snowcapped mountains of the Andes provide the backdrop for the city.
Santiago is very much the center of the world as far as Chileans are [...]
CAREFREE IN CARACAS
The city of the eternal spring, they call it.
It rings visions
my own New England bred
soul cannot grasp.
For me it haunts. For me it
is the memory of some long ago
.,..these words of Gustavo Brillembourg have eternalized Caracas, the famed city where Simon Bolivar The Liberator was born. Caracas, the capital of Venezuala, presents a dense urban [...]
Alluring Athens
Athens,the Greek capital city with a rich cultural heritage and glorious history, transcended time and dimension to be what it is today. The ‘cradle of western civilisation’ it is named after Athena, goddess of wisdom and knowledge. Today’s Athens is a home to around 4,500,000 people and is an important political, social, cultural and economic [...]
Riga
Located on the Baltic Sea, it is the capital of Latvia. it is more than 800 years old and a perfect blend of medieval centre and a modern city. Riga has the finest concentration of Art Nouveau (Jugend) buildings in Europe. Even if most of Riga’s earlier buildings have been destroyed in the wars, you [...]
Vienna
Vienna, the capital of the republic of the Austria, blending in remnants of bygone grandeur as centre of the K&K Monarchy.and the Hapsburg culture that tremendously influenced the culture that exists here even today Vienna, also described as Europe’s cultural capital, is a metropolis with unique charm and flair. It boasts outstanding infrastructure, is clean [...]